General randomness on a day off...

[inkbetweentoes]

I started posting this entry with a bunch of philosophical stuff about teaching and breaks and being home and coming back and all that, but then I just deleted it and decided it wasn't important. This is the thing about LiveJournal. I used to be able to use it to sort out all of my thoughts, but now I don't see the merit in doing that anymore.

Comments

[where2sir]

I completely understand what you mean by wanting to be able to write a more funny blog...yours ARE pretty boring. :-) (Kidding...) That's actually the main reson that Kevin Marten quit keeping one--he told me he just didn't feel like what he wrote down was worth anything, and boring at that. I fall into that too, where I don't feel like updating for more than once a month, because nothing important is going on. And I've never been the type to write down, "And then I ate this turkey sammich, and then we got in the car, and then we had to stop at Janes and 75th Street and I was so mad..." type of crap--no one cares how long the light was, unless it's coupled with something amusing, like a long line of little people doing somersaults across the intersection into Arby's

[coffeehousemt]

I think I've come to realize that I don't have a journal or a diary--I have a livejournal. And I used to have trouble writing for no audience because it just seemed silly to me. But now, I find myself writing more in my livejournal, but marking things as private. I never used to do that before, but I have a lot in the last few months.

The perks: you can still work out thoughts and ideas. You can still write nonsense and vagueness. You just realize that it may not pertain to other people. That said, you don't devalue your thoughts and feelings, no matter how silly, trivial, or un-thought through. It is kinda freeing actually.

This may not pertain to you at all, but I suggest writing more, not less, in your lj. It works for me. (I think this post is kinda ridiculous and silly, but I am TIRED and should be sleeping . . . um, did that make sense? Sigh.)